Opinion

Wednesday, 6 April 2016

Former Indian cricket team captain Mohammad Azharuddin has finally accepted
the allegations of match fixing after he was subjected to a 2:39-minute trailer
of his biopic ‘Azhar.’He confessed that
he had taken money to underplay in 1999 during the private screening of the
trailer, which he misconstrued as a third degree interrogation employed by CBI
to extract truth from him.

Earlier a buoyed Azhar informed media that he would clarify the match
fixing allegations leveled against him through this movie and silence his
critics before he headed to Balaji Motion Picture studio to catch the first
look of the movie.

The entire production team seemed jubilant as they greeted him with a
smile. Anthony D’Souza, the director of
the movie, looked at everyone with a self-assuring smile as he played the video
amid thunderous applause.

Twenty five seconds into the video and a visibly disoriented Emraan
Hashmi walks to the crease
like a person who just survived a traumatic head injury.

“What is it?” a bewildered Azhar sought a clarification.

“Your biopic,” grins the entire team.

Everyone shifted their focus back to the video as Emraan Hashmi plays a lofted cover drive and a
couple of flicks through the onside.

“Damn, is this how I used to play?And all my life I was living under the impression that I was a good
cricketer,” he covered his face with his palms.

“But I trained hard for four months to perfect your signature flick,”
said Emraan Hashmi.

“If four months of training were enough to learn cricket, Chetaswar Pujara
would’ve been playing DIlscoop by now,” his eyes darted towards the screen
again where Emraan Hashmi indulges
in a few intimate scenes, “Looks like you perfected things that are not
remotely associated with cricket.By the
way, why is everyone talking like that?”

“Cut the crap Mr. K. Madhavan, you cannot hide behind a wig.Why did you stoop so low to extract truth from
me?Kya
bigara tha be humne tera?Fine, I
accept all charges but you don’t have any right to put me through this several
years after the incident,”

“C’mon Azhar, that’s not what we are trying to prove.”

“You have proved enough.Another
15 minutes and you would probably prove that I am a pornstar as well.Now when I type my name on google, this guy
pops up on the monitor,” he pointed towards Emraan Hashmi as he stomped out of
the room, but Emraan Hashmi stopped him and invited him to watch the premier of
the movie.

However, for strange reasons, Azhar grabbed Mr. Hashmi by the collar
and choke slammed him before others intervened and escorted him outside.